Thank you for your thoughts and your letter. Mom use to do very similar things, she would feel selfish for having me come home and hearing stories from moms and wives about their sons and husbands that were not coming home, sometimes she would feel guilty for wanting me to come home and then she would think of the moms and wives that will never have there loved ones coming home again. I am sure that everyone has their difficulties in dealing with loved ones
being gone. I am sure that it doesn't help knowing that I am home which means that there was an opportunity for TJ to come home. I just
ask you to keep in mind how things work in the military and that I am home now but I will not be home for Christmas, so that I can take
the watch and allow the rest of my division to come home for Christmas. It would be a perfect world if we could all be home with our families for every holiday, but we don't live in a perfect world.
TJ just like everyone else has to make the most out of the time that
he has available to him. I can say that he is pushing hard and working efficiently and putting himself in a position to have more free time than most of the people in his rank, because he is already
trying to qualify a watch usually reserved for those who are senior
first classes and Chiefs. Although none of the stuff about work matters, I just want you to know that TJ is not like most guys who just get off of work and run home to play games, drink beer and avoid
the ones that love them behind a massive time difference and work schedules. TJ gets very passionate about wishing that he could talk to you more and more often, and knowing that and that he is working hard, but now working himself into the ground, and in the long run it
will afford him more free time to be himself and to spend his time in how he chooses, to the best of his ability.
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